Strengthen your students' reading skills all year long with Rooted in Reading for 1st Grade! This comprehensive, yearlong reading curriculum supports reading comprehension, fluency practice, and standards-aligned instruction with 40 weeks of ready-to-use lessons.

Each week is built around a high-quality read-aloud and includes reading passages with comprehension questions, engaging activities, assessments, phonics instruction, and Science of Reading-aligned lesson plans. With content for fall, winter, spring, and the end of the year, this bundle makes it easy to plan meaningful instruction from the first day of school to the last.

With fiction and nonfiction reading, fluency passages, and crafts that reinforce comprehension and vocabulary, this curriculum is flexible and easy to adapt to your schedule and your students' needs.

What's Included Each Week (40 Weeks of Lessons):

• Daily lesson plans for comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, and phonics
• Fiction and nonfiction reading passages
• Comprehension questions and response printables
• Science of Reading lesson plan components
• Interactive notebook activities
• Anchor charts and digital comprehension posters
• Weekly reading assessments
• Vocabulary cards with images and definitions
• Crafts and directed drawing activities tied to each text
• Phonics passages, activities, and assessments
• Grammar and vocabulary assessments

Year-Round and Seasonal Themes:

Lessons align with key seasons and holidays throughout the school year, with engaging activities for fall, winter, spring, and summer reading, along with optional holiday-themed resources.

Why Teachers Love Rooted in Reading:

• Encourages deeper thinking and comprehension through daily modeled reading
• Supports the Science of Reading with structured routines
• Offers a rich mix of diverse fiction and nonfiction texts
• Easy-to-follow pacing with Common Core and TEKS-aligned lesson plans
• Highly flexible to fit your classroom needs and schedule

The Book List

Each month includes four weeks of lessons, with one read-aloud per week:

• August: School's First Day of School by Adam Rex; Sylvie by Jennifer Sattler; The Bad Seed by Jory John; Nerdy Birdy by Aaron Reynolds
• September: How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman; Honey... Honey... Lion! by Jan Brett; Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey; Real Cowboys by Kate Hoefler
• October: Hoot and Peep by Lita Judge; If Your Monster Won't Go to Bed by Denise Vega; Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper; The Girl Who Thought in Pictures by Julia Finley Mosca
• November: Maddi's Fridge by Lois Brandt; Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman; A Plump and Perky Turkey by Teresa Bateman; The Scarecrow's Hat by Ken Brown
• December: Oskar and the Eight Blessings by Tanya Simon and Richard Simon; The Animals' Santa by Jan Brett; Over and Under the Snow by Kate Messner; The Great Spruce by John Duvall
• January: Penguin in Peril by Helen Hancocks; Ida, Always by Caron Levis; Chameleons Are Cool by Martin Jenkins; The Darkest Dark by Chris Hadfield
• February: Cloudette by Tom Lichtenheld; The Big Bed by Bunmi Laditan; Radiant Child by Javaka Steptoe; The Koala Who Could by Rachel Bright
• March: Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion by Alex T. Smith; After the Fall by Dan Santat; The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by Eugene Trivizas; The Mermaid by Jan Brett
• April: Farfallina and Marcel by Holly Keller; Wangari's Trees of Peace by Jeanette Winter; Thunder Underground by Jane Yolen; I Don't Want to Be a Frog by Dev Petty
• May: Alligators and Crocodiles by Gail Gibbons; Jabari Jumps by Gaia Cornwall; Chicks and Salsa by Aaron Reynolds; Naughty Mabel by Nathan Lane and Devlin Elliott

Please Note: The books used for read-alouds are not included. We recommend checking your school library, online retailers, or DonorsChoose for access.

This bundle is ideal for teachers looking for a complete solution for 1st grade reading comprehension, including fluency practice, assessments, and content-rich reading instruction that students will love. Be sure to view the preview to see the full scope of what's included, with over 4,000 pages of resources.